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Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popula……続きを見る

Von der Gründung des Königreichs Au Lac (3. Jahrhundert v. Ch.), das für seine bronzenen Trommeln und kunstvollen Waffen bekannt ist, bis hin zu den Kunstwerken der Absolventen der 1925 in Hanoi geg……続きを見る

Depuis la fondation du royaume d’Au Lac (IIIe siècle avant notre ère), les arts du Viêtnam ont laissé dans tout le pays les traces sensibles de cultures profondément originales. Ainsi, le royaume du……続きを見る

Gli eventi “caldi” degli anni Cinquanta giapponesi spingono alcuni autori a rispolverare una figura storica poco apprezzata, e anche poco studiata, per trasformarla e distorcerla fino a creare un pe……続きを見る

Un viaggio in quella terra lontana chiamata India. Esperienze, sensazioni, sentimenti. Un viaggio zaino in spalla, alla scoperta di quel paese fantastico qual è l' India. Giorno per giorno, un racco……続きを見る

This treatise is a brief but very concise introduction to Asian art. Writing from a Japanese perspective and focusing on Japanese art, one of the most important themes is the relationship between sp……続きを見る

This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconven……続きを見る

The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China's visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion. New ideologies of creativity and creative pra……続きを見る

The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered……続きを見る

A memoir of China during World War II, when Barnett, a US airman, shared friendship and scholarly interests with a young Chinese historian. They translated part of an ancient Chinese history, and me……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the Ger……続きを見る

Analyse du goût du vintage dans le cinéma sinophone. Analyse du goût du vintage dans le cinéma sinophone. L'auteur fait la synthèse des grands travaux qui ont étudié ce mouvement, plus complexe qu'u……続きを見る

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book……続きを見る

An illustrated guide to one of the most enduring masterworks of world literature Written in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of pr……続きを見る

The art of porcelain manufacturing is linked closely to China and its history, appearing in the 7th century when it became an important symbol of royalty or high status. The masterpieces of the genr……続きを見る

The social and economic rise of the chungin class (“middle people” who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosŏn period (1700–1910) ushered in a world of materiali……続きを見る

Rare paintings set aside life stories of each of the eighty-four wild Buddhist saints of ancient India. This exquisite full-color presentation of the lives of the eighty-four mahāsiddhas, or “great ……続きを見る

A Promise Kept: Memoir of Tibetans in India is a collaborative work between Germaine Krull and her friend Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz. Although a great photographer, Germaine was European and wrote Englis……続きを見る

Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chosŏn dynasty was a……続きを見る

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the prac……続きを見る

In a study driven by stunning images of Japanese advertisements and the artworks they quote from, Ory Bartal offers a first-of-its-kind interpretation of the “postmodern” genre of advertising in Jap……続きを見る

South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and po……続きを見る

Lan Ying (1585-1664), who had a pseudonym Tianshu, was a Chinese painter of landscapes, a human figure, flowers and birds who was active during the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Lan Ying was born i……続きを見る

Ren Yi (1840-1896), better known for his secular name in society as Ren Bonian, was an artist of Qing dynasty. He was born in Shaoxing City of Zhejiang province, but after his father's death in 1855……続きを見る

Like many of the great Chinese artists, Lu Ji also copied paintings by ancient masters from the Tang and Sun, who had the opportunity to study in the Emperor's collection. He studied the art of imag……続きを見る

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic. By exploring Istanbu……続きを見る

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy. From Cairo, where they controlled the medieval spice trade and the holy sites of Christianity and Islam, the Mamluk Sultans - c……続きを見る

How is home-grown contemporary art viewed within the Middle East? And is it understood differently outside the region? What is liable to be lost when contemporary art from the Middle East is 'transf……続きを見る

Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious. Yet, as Persian Kingshi……続きを見る

From Timur's tent in Samarqand to Shah 'Abbas's palace in Isfahan and Humayun's tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since its earliest appearance at the Achae……続きを見る